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Central Powers Central Powers
Central Powers in World War I , the coalition of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.... Read more
Edmund Charles Blunden Edmund Charles Blunden
Edmund Charles Blunden 1896-1974, English author. Beginning his career as a poet of nature, Blunden became a cosmopolitan teacher and writer. His prose works include Undertones of War (1928), an account of his experiences in World War I, and a study of World War I poets (1962); also biographical... Read more
Iasi Iasi
Iaşi or Jassy , city (1990 pop. 346,577), E Romania, in Moldavia, near the Republic of Moldova. Iaşi is the administrative and commercial center of a fertile agricultural region. Chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and textiles are produced. In 1565, Iaşi succeeded Suceava as... Read more
G.I. Bill of Rights G.I. Bill of Rights
G.I. BILL OF RIGHTS On June 22, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. The purpose of the act was to help the nation reabsorb millions of veterans returning from overseas who had been fighting in... Read more
Roaring Twenties Roaring Twenties
Roaring Twenties: 1919–29 The ten years between 1919 and 1929 took Europeans and Americans on a social and economic roller-coaster ride. With the end of World War I in 1918, people abandoned their cautious attitudes caused by the uncertainty of war and embraced the freedom and joyousness of... Read more
Sir Arthur William Currie Sir Arthur William Currie
Sir Arthur William Currie 1875-1933, Canadian commander in World War I. He made a distinguished record for himself in World War I as a brigade and division commander, particularly at Ypres (1915) and Vimy Ridge (1917), where he was knighted on the battlefield. Promoted to lieutenant general, he... Read more
Ivan Longinovich Goremykin Ivan Longinovich Goremykin
GOREMYKIN, IVAN LONGINOVICH (1839–1917), minister of interior and twice prime minister under Nicholas II. Ivan Loginovich Goremykin was the prototypical bureaucrat and conservative leader of late tsarist times, and became, especially during World War I, a symbol of the old regime's... Read more
Disinformation Disinformation
Disinformation ¦ MARTIN J. MANNING Disinformation is mostly commonly described as false information created by governments in wartime for military purposes and by totalitarian governments for political purposes in peacetime. Rumors, lies, and other forms of ... Read more
Jewish Legion Jewish Legion
JEWISH LEGION Four battalions of Jewish volunteers in the British army during World War I. On the urging of Russian Zionist Vladimir Ze Read more
League of Nations League of Nations
League of Nations former international organization, established by the peace treaties that ended World War I. Like its successor, the United Nations , its purpose was the promotion of international peace and security. The League was a product of World War I in the sense that that conflict... Read more

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